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Category : Cemeteries--Minnesota
Languages : en
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St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, Osseo, Hennepin County, Minnesota :.
Author: St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery (not Consecrated) Logansport, Indiana
Author: St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery
Author: Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana
Author: Shelby County Genealogical Society (Ind.)Publisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
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Notes on St. James and St. Vincent's Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland 1833-1933 and the Church of St. Vincent de Paul 1849:
Author: Jeannette HostlerPublisher:
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Category : Capt. Bernard McGuire
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church Cemetery, Shelby County, Indiana
Author: Maurice HolmesPublisher:
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Lincoln County
Author: Donald L. CombePublisher:
ISBN: 9780777936863
Category : Niagara-on-the-Lake (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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St. Vincent de Paul R.C. Cemetery, Nelson Street, Mitchell, Logan Township
Author: Ontario Genealogical Society. Perth County BranchPublisher: [Stratford, Ont.] : Ontario Genealogical Society, Perth Branch
ISBN: 9781550346565
Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans
Author: Peter B. DedekPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807166111
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Spanning centuries, this fascinating body of research takes readers from muddy fields of crude burial markers to extravagantly designed cities of the dead, illuminating a vital and vulnerable piece of New Orleans’s identity. Where many histories of New Orleans cemeteries have revolved around the famous people buried within them, Dedek focuses on the marble cutters, burial society members, journalists, and tourists who shaped these graveyards into internationally recognizable emblems of the city. In addition to these cultural actors, Dedek’s exploration of cemetery architecture reveals the impact of ancient and medieval grave traditions and styles, the city’s geography, and the arrival of trained European tomb designers, such as the French architect J. N. B. de Pouilly in 1833 and Italian artist and architect Pietro Gualdi in 1851. As Dedek shows, the nineteenth century was a particularly critical era in the city’s cemetery design. Notably, the cemeteries embodied traditional French and Spanish precedents, until the first garden cemetery—the Metairie Cemetery—was built on the site of an old racetrack in 1872. Like the older walled cemeteries, this iconic venue served as a lavish expression of fraternal and ethnic unity, a backdrop to exuberant social celebrations, and a destination for sightseeing excursions. During this time, cultural and religious practices, such as the celebration of All Saints’ Day and the practice of Voodoo rituals, flourished within the spatial bounds of these resting places. Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, however, episodes of neglect and destruction gave rise to groups that aimed to preserve the historic cemeteries of New Orleans—an endeavor, which, according to Dedek, is still wanting for resources and political will. Containing ample primary source material, abundant illustrations, appendices on both tomb styles and the history of each of the city’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cemeteries, The Cemeteries of New Orleans offers a comprehensive and intriguing resource on these fascinating historic sites.
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